![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The family then took a ride on a monster truck before arriving at the gun range. Sequence of events Īccording to the girl's father, their family had traveled from their Las Vegas hotel to the Last Stop at approximately 9:45 AM. It was also legal for Arizona Last Stop to own the fully automatic Uzi because it was manufactured and purchased prior to the passage of the Firearm Owners Protection Act in 1986 and added to the National Firearms Act machine gun registry where all fully automatic civilian owned firearms are registered. The minimum age set by the shooting range to fire a weapon is eight years old provided that the child is supervised by a parent, as the girl was. According to county law officials the shooting is being viewed as an industrial accident. The accident occurred at the Arizona Last Stop Gun Range (also known as "Bullets and Burgers") in White Hills, Arizona, where Vacca had worked for about 18 months. On August 25, 2014, 39-year-old Charles Vacca was accidentally shot and killed while instructing a nine-year-old girl in how to shoot a Mini- Uzi. At least one of the three living Utah survivors wants his ashes placed on his old ship.Accidental killing of a man by a nine-year-old girl Shooting of Charles Vacca Date Sixty died on the Utah, and three have been interred there. A memorial built in 1962 sits above the wreckage. Of the 1,177 USS Arizona sailors and Marines killed at Pearl Harbor, more than 900 could not be recovered and remain entombed on the ship, which sank in nine minutes. Neither underwater archaeologists at the Navy History and Heritage Command or those who handle burials for the Navy Personnel Command were aware of any interments conducted on sunken Navy vessels elsewhere. ![]() 7, 1941 file photo, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Most of the ships hit that day were repaired and put back into service or scrapped. The wrecks of only two vessels remain in the harbor - the Arizona and USS Utah - so survivors of those ships are the only ones who have the option to be laid to rest this way. The Navy began interring Pearl Harbor survivors on their old ships in 1982. Bruner traveled from his La Mirada, California, home to attend Pearl Harbor anniversary events many times. And there are a lot of people who come to see the ship,” Bruner told The Associated Press in an interview in 2016, three years before he died in his sleep in September. "I thought, well, all my buddies are right here. He also saw it as a way to join old friends who never made it off the warship. Two were killed and the third hospitalized in the shooting that ended with the sailor also taking his own life.īurner said he wanted to return to his ship because few people go to cemeteries, while more than 1 million people visit the Arizona each year. The somber ceremony and other events marking the anniversary of the attack come on the heels of a deadly shooting at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on Wednesday when an active duty sailor opened fire on three civilian Department of Defense employees. The last three living Arizona survivors plan to be laid to rest with their families. The Southern California man will be the 44th and last crew member to be interred in accordance with this rare Navy ritual. This weekend, divers will place Bruner’s ashes inside the battleship’s wreckage, which sits in Pearl Harbor where it sank during the attack 78 years ago that thrust the United States into World War II. ![]()
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